3 Tamils arrested in Kandy
The Kandy police Saturday took three Tamils including a woman into custody in a cordon and search operation carried out within the municipal limits of Kandy town. Police sources said the arrested failed to prove their identity and justify their presence in the location. Read more
Body with gunshot injuries found in Mannaar
The body of an unidentified male person with gunshot injuries was found along Mannaar-Thaalvupaadu main road Saturday morning. The Mannar police rushed to the site to hold inquiry, and transferred the body to the Mannaar general hospital.
Tamil civilian shot dead in Batticaloa district
Unidentified gunmen forcibly took away a Tamil family man from his house in Pangkudaave’li area in Karadiyanaa’ru police division Friday around 12:00 p.m and shot him killed, police said. Meanwhile, a Tamil youth shot and seriously injured by unknown armed men in Ea’raavoor police division Thursday night succumbed to his wounds Friday night in Batticaloa Teaching Hospital. Read more
Police curfew clamped down in Batticaloa district
Following the killing of 23 innocent civilians within the past 4 days by armed men in Batticaloa and mounting international attention on the terror prevailing in the East, a 12-hour police-curfew has been clamped down in Batticaloa district from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Saturday to launch search operations. Read more
SLAF bombs refugee camp in ‘secure zone’ in Vanni, children among victims
Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) Kfir bombers attacked a refugee camp of Internally Displaced People bordering Piramanthanaa’ru and Uzhavaoor (Tharmapuram) in Ki’linochchi district in the early hours of Saturday around 1:35 a.m. Medical authorities at Tharmapuram said three persons were killed. Two, a 5-year-old child and an 80-year-old man, died at the hospital. At least 18 wounded civilians, including seven children below 10 years and 7 females, were admitted at the hospital following the indiscriminate bombardment on IDP settlement. Medical authorities described the bombardment as “terrible mid-night aerial attack on refugee camp”. SLAF bombs refugee camp in Vanni, children among killed, wounded Read more
Kungchupparanthan: first debacle of SLA in battle for Ki’linochchi
Several decomposed corpses of Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers were still lying within the no-man area between the SLA and Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE) frontiers in Kugnchukkulam no man zone, informed sources revealed on Friday. The SLA soldiers had maneuvered deep into LTTE trap, according to the source, which said it was the first debacle of the SLA in the battle for Ki’linochchi. At least 75 SLA soldiers were confirmed dead so far, the source said adding more than 160 of the soldiers, who managed to reach back to their barracks, had been injured. The LTTE, which earlier said 43 SLA soldiers were killed and 70 wounded, is yet to release further updates. Read more
Midnight aerial attack kills two civilians and injures nineteen more in Kilinochchi
The residents of the Nanthan Kudiyiruppu in Kallaru in Kilinochchi were brutally awoken at 1.30am on 29 November as sixteen bombs rained on the camp of these IDPs who had displaced multiple times. Two civilians were killed including a five year old child and a further nineteen were seriously injured. Among the injured are seven children under the age of fifteen. Read more
Thousands takes part in Nov. 26 National Awakening Event in Toronto
Toronto - Thousands of Tamil Canadians gathered at a large Banquet Hall with the capacity crowd in Toronto Free Tamil Eelam National awakening event. Read more
Heroes’ Day – or a terrorist fundraiser?
Thousands of British Tamils will descend upon a major festival in London today despite accusations that it is a fundraising initiative for the Tamil Tigers, a banned terrorist group. Read more
Heavy Floods Kills 6 people in Vanni, Northern Sri Lanka
Vanni – Heavy floods caused by the seasonal heavy monsoon rain in the Vanni, Northern Sri Lanka killed at least six people. The sluice gates of Visuvamadu tank were opened as the raising water level posed great danger to the wall of the dam that has been shaken already by the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) attacks. Read more
